Gonsalves
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant spelling of Portuguese Gon9alves (see Goncalves)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡoʊnˈsɑɫvɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gonsalves is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 40th most common surname.
- GYGuyana1 in 641(measured from records)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 29K
- USUnited States1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gonsalves itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- 1 in 641 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant spelling of Portuguese Gon9alves (see Goncalves). This name is also found in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gonsalves counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Gonsalves | 3 |
| US United States | — | 8,494 | 1 in 39K | 9.7K | Gonsalves | 355 |
| BR Brazil | #649 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 1.9K | Gonsalves | 104 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5,653as Gonçalves | 1 in 1.5K | 5.7K | Gonsalves | 7 |
| AO Angola | #432 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 10 | Gonsalves | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,241as Goncalves | 1 in 1.5K | 2.2K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | #40 | 1,171 | 1 in 641 | 1.2K | Gonsalves | 9 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 128 | 1 in 792 | 128 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vic Gonsalvesb. 1887NLDutch footballer (1887–1922)
- Billy Gonsalvesb. 1908USAmerican soccer player (1908-1977)
- Paul Gonsalvesb. 1920USAmerican saxophonist and jazz musician (1920-1974)
- Ralph Gonsalvesb. 1946VCformer Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Colin Gonsalvesb. 1952INIndian lawyer
- Rob Gonsalvesb. 1959CACanadian artist (1959–2017)
- Elias Gonsalvesb. 1961INIndian archbishop
- Camillo Gonsalvesb. 1972VCSaint Vincent and the Grenadines diplomat
- Laura Pamplonab. 1973ESnot in their usual nameSpanish model and singer
- Kartiki Gonsalvesb. 1986INFemale Indian documentary filmmaker and photographer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 232K | #160 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.5K | #4,173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8K | #4,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.7K | #4,265 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.2K | #66 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 128 | #138 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 69 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 25 | #31,192 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gonsalves come from?
- Variant spelling of Portuguese Gon9alves (see Goncalves). This name is also found in western India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gonsalves?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoʊnˈsɑɫvɛs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gonsalves mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Portuguese Gon9alves (see Goncalves).
- In which country does Gonsalves have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Gonsalves in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonsalves.
- Where is Gonsalves most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gonsalves is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 641 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gonsalves?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,494 people named Gonsalves in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Gonsalves compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Gonsalves is the 40th most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gonsalvesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gonsalves” — the 40th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.